Point. I have met women like this, and they tend to be, shall I say, less than rational in their dealings with people outside of the relationship as well. I've met men like this, also, though they are less common. Yes, women are frequently socialized to the old system of domestic worker in exchange for material security and comfort; the feminist movement more or less shook off the "domestic worker" part (not entirely, but to a great degree), but there are people who take advantage of this and continue to cling to the "material comfort" (not even the "security" part, which is considerably more reachable, also thanks to the feminist movement.) Having their cake and eating it too, as it were. Does that make feminism a bad thing? Not necessarily, and people who want true equality--that is, for women to possess the same social responsibilities and obligations as well as advantages that males do--have been struggling against the perceptions laid upon us by the cake-eaters for years.
What I objected to in the post I replied to was the elaborate sketching of an extremely specific scenario (woman looking to leech off a man for support of a child) being broadly applied, and the implication (not uncommon in the "nerd community"; as much as I hate that phrase, it's the best for the situation) that women are somehow exempt from or the primary perpetrators of the social bias against people who game/program/study science/etc. If I misread that, it's my fault (also for leaving my tags at home.)
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Point. I have met women like this, and they tend to be, shall I say, less than rational in their dealings with people outside of the relationship as well. I've met men like this, also, though they are less common. Yes, women are frequently socialized to the old system of domestic worker in exchange for material security and comfort; the feminist movement more or less shook off the "domestic worker" part (not entirely, but to a great degree), but there are people who take advantage of this and continue to cling to the "material comfort" (not even the "security" part, which is considerably more reachable, also thanks to the feminist movement.) Having their cake and eating it too, as it were. Does that make feminism a bad thing? Not necessarily, and people who want true equality--that is, for women to possess the same social responsibilities and obligations as well as advantages that males do--have been struggling against the perceptions laid upon us by the cake-eaters for years.
What I objected to in the post I replied to was the elaborate sketching of an extremely specific scenario (woman looking to leech off a man for support of a child) being broadly applied, and the implication (not uncommon in the "nerd community"; as much as I hate that phrase, it's the best for the situation) that women are somehow exempt from or the primary perpetrators of the social bias against people who game/program/study science/etc. If I misread that, it's my fault (also for leaving my tags at home.)
As a woman, nothing is more attractive to me than ill-informed misogeny. Women must be throwing themselves at your feet!